The FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes will as soon as once more return to Gulfstream Park, the place the tradition-rich collection for 2-year-olds sired by accredited stallions standing in Florida will probably be featured through the late summer season, early fall months of the Royal Palm Meet.
The $100,000 Dr. Fager, a six-furlong dash, and the $100,000 Desert Vixen, a six-furlong sprint for fillies, will kick off the 2022 FSS collection Aug. 6. The $200,000 Affirmed will probably be contested at seven-furlongs Sept. 3, as properly the $200,000 Susan’s Woman for fillies. The $400,000 In Actuality and the $400,000 My Expensive Woman for fillies, the 1 1/16-mile last legs of the collection, will probably be run on Oct. 1.
The inaugural $100,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Gil Campbell Memorial, a mile stakes for 3-year-olds, will even be run on Oct. 1.
The Florida Sire Stakes Sequence has produced 5 Eclipse Award champions: Superior Feather (2010 Juvenile Filly), Large Drama (2010 Sprinter), Smile (1986 Sprinter), Courageous Raj (1986 Juvenile Filly) and Not Stunning (1995 Dash).
The six Florida Sire Stakes races are amongst 40 stakes races scheduled through the spring, summer season and fall months. The $75,000 Honey Ryder, a mile turf stakes for 3-year-old fillies, and the $75,000 English Channel, a mile turf occasion for 3-year-olds, will kick off the stakes schedule subsequent Saturday, adopted by the $75,000 Monroe, a 1 1/16-mile turf stakes for fillies and mares, subsequent Sunday.
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The Royal Palm meet’s stakes schedule will probably be headlined by the $250,000 Princess Rooney Invitational (G2), a seven-furlong dash for fillies and mares, and the $100,000 Smile Dash (G3), a six-furlong race for 3-year-olds and up, July 2 on Summit of Pace Weekend, which will even function the $100,000 Bob Umphrey Dash, a five-furlong sprint for 3-year-olds and up on Tapeta.